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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER . 2022 | VOL.27

Working from the Pub

Hybrid offer from Punch targets work-
life shift

Award-winning pubco Punch Pubs has
launched a new cafe, bar and co-working
space alongside one of its existing pubs in
London. There is a great video to view this
innovative new offer which can be accessed
here.

Faim in Euston square offers a compelling
package of unlimited tea and coffee, pastries
for breakfast and a large plate for lunch

Working patterns and the workspace of alongside working desk space for just £15.
the future 2023-an opportunity for The pub operators have extensive experience
hospitality? operating coffee shops as well as pubs and
the offer includes cocktails, juice, smoothies
Since the pandemic and the rise of working as well as wines from around the world. It’s a

from home, huge shifts have taken place new space designed to offer work, pleasure
changing permanently the ways in which or both.
employees engage with their employers,
clients and audience.

Whilst working from home has proved a bonus
for many, some are returning to a hybrid
working system and others perhaps for whom
work from home has not been so attractive-
flat sharers, commuters with city meetings,
those with families at home, have sought new
places to work quietly, flexibly and efficiently.

Traditionally a network of city centre flexible
workspaces offered a solution, at a cost, to
meet this need. In the face however of rising
costs all around, new contenders are ‘flexing’
to enter this space, leveraging years of
experience in hospitality and a new breed of

hybrid workspace has emerged from pubs
eager to move with the times and take a chunk
of this market. Here we look at a few such
operators.